THE FATAL SISTERS AN ODE FROM THE NORSE TONGUE How the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare,) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.

This plan was successful, except that occasionally the wire was broken by an extraordinary burden of sleet in the winter season.

She could hear the swirling of the wind and the beat of sleet against the window-pane.

An instant later the brass cannon at the corner gave a flash and a roar while the whole outline of the wood was traced in a rolling cloud, and the shower of bullets rapped up against the wooden wall like sleet on a window.

"How pleasanter," said she Unto the sofa opposite, "The sleet than May no thee!" IX.

He followed his star on the Romney march Through the sleet to the wintry war; And he followed it on when he bowed the grain The Wind of the Shenandoah; At Gaines's Mill in the giant's strain

The guns took their toll, and where death from above missed, death from the level came in an unbroken torrent of bullets sleeting across the open from rifles and machine-guns.

Windows bright Beamed rosy on the sleet without, And from the deep street came the frequent shout; While some in prayer, as these in glee, Blessed heaven for the winter-victory.

Blasts of wind came skurrying down upon the Kureisch camp, driving rain and sleet before them.

A frightful wind was bringing sleet from the East.

Think of walking up a street in the depth of a frosty winter, with long ice in the gutters, and sleet over head, and then figure to yourself a sort of bale of a man in white, coming towards you with a lantern in one hand, and an umbrella over his head.